Downtown Jacksonville Becoming Vacant

[Jerry Moran]

I saw a need for downtown metered parking until now.  No retail is left.  Pull the meters and replace with 2 hour parking.  Issue warnings, and then citations to repeat offenders.  The technology is already in place.

My business is only open at night, and yet, the biggest concern my customers still have is getting mugged and their vehicle getting towed.  I've said before that most drivers in North Florida don't know how to parallel park, much less negotiate an urban landscape.  They get nervous, and pass on visiting downtown.

[TheProfessor]

Let's just fill downtown with nightlife and then hopefully residential and retail will follow...

[stjr]

I end up skipping much of the bold stuff myself. Ock or stjr have a much better chance of me reading their entire post if I am on the blackberry not the PC because of the plain text.

I use bold because, on my computer screens, the contrast is far better to me than this plain type which is a light gray (not letter black) against an alternating screen of blue light and blue heavier.  It makes the type look somewhat faded.  On that basis, the higher contrast of bold is far easier to me to read.  It isn't meant to make a statement.  And, I got hooked on it, because I thought Ock's posts were easier to read when he used it.  Maybe Ock and I are older than the average poster here and we need the vision assistance!  

By the way, I note that MJ uses bold lettering for most of its captions and headers, probably for the same reason.  If MJ could make the type for our posts a darker color or otherwise increase the contrast, I would be happy to abandon bold except for when I really do want added emphasis.

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

I end up skipping much of the bold stuff myself. Ock or stjr have a much better chance of me reading their entire post if I am on the blackberry not the PC because of the plain text.

I use bold because, on my computer screens, the contrast is far better to me than this plain type which is a light gray (not letter black) against an alternating screen of blue light and blue heavier.  It makes the type look somewhat faded.  On that basis, the higher contrast of bold is far easier to me to read.  It isn't meant to make a statement.  And, I got hooked on it, because I thought Ock's posts were easier to read when he used it.  Maybe Ock and I are older than the average poster here and we need the vision assistance!  

By the way, I note that MJ uses bold lettering for most of its captions and headers, probably for the same reason.  If MJ could make the type for our posts a darker color or otherwise increase the contrast, I would be happy to abandon bold except for when I really do want added emphasis.

If you use Firefox there's a nifty add-on called NoSquint that lets you adjust text size and colors in your browser, and you can adjust the settings and save them by site with a few clicks on a menu in your status bar. It makes things alot easier for me, because my I'm blind as a bat and too vain to get bifocals.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592/

[Bativac]

...I've said before that most drivers in North Florida don't know how to parallel park, much less negotiate an urban landscape.  They get nervous, and pass on visiting downtown.

I think you're absolutely right, here. Anytime I want to go downtown with friends, I end up having to drive because nobody else can parallel park. I only learned because I lived in downtown Portland, Maine for awhile and it was a necessity.

Not that you really have to parallel park when there is a 60 foot strip of empty parking space. But people who never leave Jacksonville don't have any kind of urban driving environment to compare downtown Jacksonville to and get scared. Easier to park at the Town Center and walk to the Cheesecake Factory.

[Ocklawaha]

I end up skipping much of the bold stuff myself. Ock or stjr have a much better chance of me reading their entire post if I am on the blackberry not the PC because of the plain text.

I use bold because, on my computer screens, the contrast is far better to me than this plain type which is a light gray (not letter black) against an alternating screen of blue light and blue heavier.  It makes the type look somewhat faded.  On that basis, the higher contrast of bold is far easier to me to read.  It isn't meant to make a statement.  And, I got hooked on it, because I thought Ock's posts were easier to read when he used it.  Maybe Ock and I are older than the average poster here and we need the vision assistance!  

Or perhaps Ock does it because he is an SOB!


OCKLAWAHA

[mtraininjax]

Easier to park at the Town Center and walk to the Cheesecake Factory.

Who parks their own car at Town Center? Valet baby!

[stjr]

Who parks their own car at Town Center? Valet baby!

Maybe THAT'S the cure to downtown

[tufsu1]

Who parks their own car at Town Center? Valet baby!

Maybe THAT'S the cure to downtown

The Landing already offers the service

[Glenn VL]

Who parks their own car at Town Center? Valet baby!

Maybe THAT'S the cure to downtown

The Landing already offers the service

Just don't mistake a transient for the valet attendant. ::chuckle::